VPNs haven't been useful since 2002

[Maxmars]

I’ll keep virus scan, popup blockers, and vpn apps/extensions just the same.

I go back and forth to the Philippines. VPN more than covers it’s cost in usefulness.

That alright.  I too pay for a VPN service, along with anti-virus, and anti-everything else stuff...

It just bothers me that at every turn, without fail, every single thing I pay for along these lines only provides a "feeling" of being protected... I never truly am. 

Again and again, over and over, each one is revealed as devastatingly ineffectual, and vacuously implemented.